CORRESPONDENCE
Allen, Donald
Baker, Richard
Brautigan, Richard
Brownfield, Dorothy [Welch's mother]
1943 - 1950
1950. Includes handwritten sections from poems "In my middle youth..." and "I David, arm in the sling" in letter dated 1 Feb. 1950. TS of poems "Monologue of one whom the spring found unaccompanied...," "Fragments," "Corinna's Gone A-Praying" in letter dated 21 March 1950
1951
1952 - 1955. Includes paraphrase from Paulinus of Nola letter dated 17 Feb. 1952 and TS of "Breakfast, One Easter," in letter dated 17 April 1952
1957 - 1959. Includes TS of "Note from Pioneer on a Speck in Space" in letter dated 21 July 1957
1960 - 1961. Includes outline of autobiographical novel (3 pps) dated April 1960; 1 TLs (1 p.) from Ms. Brownfield to Emil Garber (Mary's father)
1962 - 1964. Includes TS of "Birthday Poem, with Instructions to his Mother," dated 8 May 1963
1971
Miscellaneous. 1 TLs to LW from Robert Jones, clerk of Cal. Poetry Reading Circuit, dated 12 June 1969, 1 TLs (3 leaves) to Dorothy B. from Mary Welch dated 15 December 1957
Cuddy, Terry (Prisoner at San Quentin)
Doss, John
Doyle, Kirby [all are letters from Welch to Doyle]
Durand, Robert
Hausman, Gerald
Hawley, Robert (editor of Oyez Press)
KitKitDizze - Miscellaneous letters and notes concerning Welch's projected home in the Sierras
Korte, Sister Mary
Koller, James
McClure, Michael
Martin, John
Moore, Marianne
Murphy, Pat
Olsen, Charles
Ring of Bone - Miscellaneous correspondence and Grove Press Contract for Welch's proposed publication
Rago, Henry (editor of Poetry Magazine)
Saijo, Albert
Saleh, Dennis
Schevill, James (San Francisco Poetry Center)
Shoemaker, Jack (editor of Maya Press)
Simon, John Oliver
Snyder, Gary
Thompson, Marilyn and Bari
University of California at Davis - Letters concerning readings at UC Davis
University of California at Santa Barbara - Letter concerning readings at UCSB, from Ruth Cole
University of Utah/John Vernon - Letter concerning reading
Upton, Charles
Welch, Lew - 1 ALs draft to Philip Whalen; 1 TLs to Will Peterson; 1 TLs carbon to Welch's mother; 1 MS -- thought by Don Allen to be part of an enclosure to a letter to James Wilson which is perhaps related to Welch's poem "Invention Against Invention"
Whalen, Philip
WRITINGS
Poetry
Titled poetry
"Brandy's Wedding" (crossed out) or "Poem MSS" - Miscellaneous drafts of poems from various periods with some carbons
"Fishing" folder - "Section for Fish Poem" typescript; prose account of salmon fishing, typescript with holograph revisions
"For Consideration (For Sure)" - Poems in TS, some carbons. Includes TS of The Mountain Poems and Leather Prunes
"Fragments" - Folder of 14 fragments, TS (with carbons) from scrolls, notebooks, loose leaf folders, etc. Includes two maps in holograph
"Invention Against Invention" - Typescript with holograph dedication to Charles Olsen and revisions
"Late Poems from Ring of Bone" - TS drafts and holograph drafts, various stages
Leather Prunes - Poem drafts, some on napkins, some carbons
"1963" - TS and MS, includes versions of "A Letter for Robert Duncan," and "Invention Against Invention"
The Mountain Poems and Spring Rain Revolution at the Forks - Early versions of Hermit Poems and The Way Back. TS, signed
On Out: Selected Poems 1950 - 1960 - TS, clean carbon, inscription to LW's wife and signature on title leaf
"Our Lady of Defeated Love" - Drafts of poem. Holograph draft of preface to "Cement" and one MS poem
Ring of Bone - Some carbons, slight holograph, TS
"Small Book to Break the Rain" - TS with holograph revisions from 1967
Spring Rain Revolution at the Forks and Hermit Poems - TS, some carbons, with corrections, signed
Trip Trap - Single typed sheet formed by joining several sheets together. TS of book prepared by Welch, Albert Saijo, and Jack Kerouac. Believed typed by Kerouac
"The Wanderer" - Poem with the I-Ching throw upon which the poem is based, holograph
The Way Back - TS including carbon; holograph poem by Gary Snyder, "The Four Vows," annotated by Welch
"To Write..." etc. - List of poems written and "to write." Holograph on paper napkin, from 1970. Two Poems: "Dear Joanne"; and "A Poem for Gerard Malanga" in holograph. Poem: "Words to that Effect," TS with holograph addition. Poem: "The Epiphany of Toffy Belski," TS
Miscellaneous and untitled poetry
Miscellaneous papers - "A Farewell Note to God, Should He Exist." Preface, 1 page fragment from larger preface to Ring of Bone. Proposed table of contents for Ring of Bone. Miscellaneous cards including short prose notes. Leaves from small notebook containing maps and drawings. Assorted notebook fragments and leaves, addresses, and lists. "Across Space and Time" by Charles Olsen, 1 page TS of Olsen piece from Set no. 1
Miscellaneous poems - MSS ("Poetry Workshop Joyce Brians" crossed out). Miscellaneous poems and TS with various dates. Some holograph revisions and one poem in holograph. Includes draft of "Words to That Effect" and proposed table of contents for On Out
Essays
Drafts of "Final City - Tap City" - Includes carbon of printed version
Early Poems and Long Thing for William Carlos Williams - Long essay about Welch's own poetry, dedicated to WCW (1950)
Expose the Bones of Rhetoric - TS draft in scroll format
Greed - San Francisco Oracle essay, xerox and photocopy of various versions with published version and photocopy of letter to editor
How to Survive in The United States - TS
Language is Speech - TS of essay
Uses of Poetry - TS draft
Writings of Gertrude Stein: Its Nature and Principles - Reed College BA thesis, May 1950, carbon TS; inscribed by LW to his mother
Prose and Plays
Fiction - Miscellaneous TS prose. 8 sections with carbons, mostly from scrolls which have been broken down and pasted together
I, Leo
First draft, long scroll format
Second and third drafts. TS, corrected
Twins - TS of play (incomplete)
Scrolls
Din Poem
Photocopies of high-acid and taped scrolls
Songs
Graffitti and Supermarket - Words and music, on stencil with original
Songs - TS and MS, including holograph version of "Supermarket" music; some carbons
Notebooks
Pages from black looseleaf notebook - Early poems, rough drafts of long poems, prose drafts, letters with poems from other poets, including three from Philip Whalen and one from Gary Snyder
Brown silk-covered notebook - Hermit Songs in holograph, calligraphed by Welch including design, dedication and two holograph poems by Philip Whalen 1964
Ledger, "The Fisherman's Notebook," signed - Various notes on three pages with five pages of notes for projected book of poems
Looseleaf notebook from early San Francisco period
Spiral-bound notebooks
7 X 8 1/2, 3 pps., with entries of notes for poems
4 X 6, 18 pps., notes for teaching
4 X 6, 35 pps., notes, including journal kept in Big Sur 1962
3 X 5, looseleaf, 8 pps., Forks of Salmon period
List of supplies on rear page for construction of house. Single entry dated 14 May 1971 (in front), believed to be the last note made by Welch before his disappearance 1971
8 1/2 X 11, 9 pps., "tentative structure for I, Leo and other works"
PRINTED REVIEWS, ANNOUNCEMENTS AND ADVERTISEMENTS
Miscellaneous documents, announcements, sections from magazines, broadsides, gathered by Welch, announcing readings. Includes review of Welch's plays from San Francisco Magazine
Press release and program note written by Welch for San Francisco State College poetry reading in 1966. Carbon with holograph revisions. "A Short Love Story of a Man and a Planet," printed in Omen I, 1 (1970), later titled "He Begins to Recount His Adventures." Gavin Arthur's hand-drawn horoscope for Welch, signed; crayon of printed horoscope 1966 - 1966
Publicity - Clippings of Ralph Gleason's San Francisco Chronicle column, 26 October 1966. Original clippings and negative of Grover Sales' review of Welch's "One Man Plays" reading, from San Francisco Magazine. Xerox of "Final City" from Oracle, no. 34, 1968. Xeroxes of San Quentin News item on Welch and Brautigan reading at prison. College of Marin reprint of article on Welch from Independent Journal (1968). Program notes for San Francisco State College Poetry Center reading, 1959
Reviews Writ by Me - Drafts of reviews of Philip Whalen's On Bear's Head and Richard Brautigan's In Watermelon Sugar, including final published version from San Francisco Chronicle
Reviews, ephemera, and broadsides
PERSONAL AND BUSINESS RECORDS
Contract for Pacific Coast Clerks, subsidiary of International Long Shoreman's and Warehouseman's Union
Funeral record of LW's father
Greeley, Colorado - Folder containing information, correspondence, and documents pertaining to Welch's residency at Colorado State College at Greeley, Colorado
Grove Press letters and contracts
List of equipment purchased & page of doodles and drawings 1962 - 1963
Permission correspondence and forms
UC Extension - Miscellaneous papers relating to Welch's teaching at UC Berkeley Extension. Contains poems written by students, contracts, and a letter drafted by Welch to Elspeth Smith (Director of UC Extension program) concerning his classes. Also, a letter of complaint about Welch from student and E. Smith's response
Statement of opposition to Vietnam War - Welch's name appears on statement (typed), but is not signed 1965
Sturm, Rogers and Co. Guns catalog